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GUSTAV KLIMT | Zwei ringende Männerakte (Two Wrestling Male Nudes)

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15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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描述

  • 古斯塔夫·克林姆
  • Zwei ringende Männerakte (Two Wrestling Male Nudes)
  • with the Estate Stamp Gustav Klimt Nachlass (lower right)
  • coloured pencil on paper
  • 56.3 by 37.2cm., 22 1/8 by 14 5/8in.
  • Drawn in 1904-05.

來源

Sale: Grisebach, Berlin, 6 June 1998, lot 144
Private Collection, Austria (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

出版

Hermann Bahr, Gustav Klimt 50 Handzeichnungen, Vienna, 1922, n.p.
Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt Dokumentation, Vienna, 1969, illustrated p. 431
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Salzburg, 1982, no. 1524, illustrated p. 106

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount at two points along the verso of the upper edge. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there is a window mount stain along the edges. There are minor scattered spots of foxing. There are a number of faint vertical stains fanning out from towards the centre of the upper edge in the background. This work is in good overall condition.
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